I've only seen and shot black, brown, and reddish hogs in NW Florida. I'd like to get one with spots or maybe a white stripe. And by "spots", I don't mean a piglet. This one had a long snout, I guess good for rooting.
This one had a long snout
A large one ran such that I could lead and shoot, and it instantly flipped up and over.
Have you ever thought about doing a 14.5 setup in 300 blackout. With a can on the end.Just got in. 29th hog (large sow) killed about 11pm. Had gotten a call from a farmer that he'd finished turning all his peanut fields, and could I come out. Went out about 9pm. Immediately spotted a coyote eating peanuts about 150yd away. After a few minutes it noticed me standing there in the moon light, although I'm dressed in black, but had not put on my hat face cover and gloves, it noticed me and ran off after getting worried about me. I finished walking to where I'd be sitting. About 10:30pm I see something large come out about 300yd away. It was a sounder of hogs clumped together that then spread out in the peanuts...then I knew they were hogs. I watched for about 20 minutes, and they'd only come closer by about 50yd, so I decided to stalk. After about 15 minutes of slowly getting closer, all of a sudden they came towards me and started eating again. I counted 20. At this point they are about 50 yards away, to my left, to my right, and right in front of me. I picked a big sow, shot, and then fired 4 more shots at a couple of others as they ran back into the jungle that borders the field. I heard one "screaming" and believe I heard a gnashing of teeth from the jungle, but it's night, it's a jungle of swamp, trees, brush...it is not worth me going in harms way for a wounded hog.
Dragged her a few feet to the edge of the field and will take care of her in the morning. 300 Blackout, Nosler 125gr Ballistic Tip, 16" bbl, FLIR RS32 thermal sight, CRUX Ark 30 suppressor, custom "Hog Slayer" milled hand guard. On the bottom of the hand guard, under the word "Hog" you can see I'm wearing off the finish on the edges I've carried and used it so much. Not readily apparent, but my suppressor has a myriad of scratches and finish wear from having been used a lot in hunting, plinking, long range shooting, in and out of blinds, and in and out of hunting vehicles.
View attachment 76618
How important is being able to suppress the sound of the muzzle blast to what you are doing. I am assuming you are using supersonic loads.
About the coyote last night:
I did not shoot at it, nor did I intend to, just scare it off the peanuts. Physically, I could have safely shot, it wasn't that far away, and sat long enough trying to figure out if I was danger. Although we are doing a service for the farmer/property owner and having fun doing it, we are there at their pleasure, have spent years building a trust relationship (I believe it took 4 years for this property before being asked/allowed to hog hunt doing such things as helping the owner build, bait, and repair hog traps, reporting any hog damage, baking blueberry muffins with our own blueberries for his wife, coming out to help butcher hogs, sharing hog meat with different families, attending a state wildlife biologist and forestry rep meeting with the owner), and must follow their rules. At this particular property, the owner doesn't want coyotes shot, and that is that.
love finding some hogs!